Michael Lavey pointed out to me off-list that the American paperback edition of
Pale Fire features in the currently Oscar-nominated film Her (2013).
He writes:
as Pale Fire is concerned with the incomprehensibility of consciousness after death to those still living, Her is concerned with the incomprehensibility of superhuman intelligence (and emotion) to the merely human. I don't think it's a meaningless
coincidence that the only book the audience sees in the movie (aside from the main character's own published book of letters) is Pale Fire.
Brian Boyd
All private editorial
communications are read by both co-editors.